Update (9/17/2020): Your Voice Has Been Heard! Yesterday, we asked for your help in reaching out to the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF), your local state senators, and the Governor’s office to ask them to restore youth mentoring funding to its established level of $170,000 in the...
At the end of January, Benji, Chad and 11 mentoring program leaders from Vermont traveled to D.C. for the 10th annual National Mentoring Summit! Benji and Chad were joined by Gabriella Tufo Strouse (King Street Center), Erika Linskey (Safer Society Foundation), Marianne Hunkin (Watershed Mentoring) for Capitol Hill Day....
Each year at the conclusion of National Mentoring Month, MENTOR convenes the National Mentoring Summit, which brings together more than 1,000 youth mentoring practitioners, advocates, researchers, philanthropic investors, and government and civic leaders for three days of advocacy and professional development. This year’s event continued the theme of “Building...
Having a caring, consistent adult mentor can play a crucial role in helping a young person succeed. Currently, one in three youth in Vermont enter adulthood without having a structured or informal adult mentor in their lives. Joanne, who mentors through Connecting Youth in the Champlain Valley School District,...
Each January, during National Mentoring Month, Mobius hosts an event that convenes mentors, mentees, mentoring program staff, legislators, and mentoring supporters across Vermont to honor volunteer mentors for their service and raise awareness of the importance of mentoring. This year’s Mentoring Celebration was held January 31, acting as a...
My name is Rajnii Eddins, and I am a mentor, a spoken word/hip hop artist, and an arts educator. I was contacted in January of 2017 by Lee Ann Donner, the former mentoring coordinator of Spectrum, who invited me to create a rap in celebration of...
